It’s wrong to think of a single hearing as a beginning and ending for a court case. John Hoge has a hearing on motions set for this morning, and I have not heard the outcome. Bill Schmalfeldt and William Ferguson are set to appear by video. (Must miss TV.)

Even if John Hoge prevails, there will be appeals. If John doesn’t win by default, he’ll press on, I think. It’s Maryland, so you can never tell.

None of this changes some simple facts:

Team Kimberlin members have a twisted perspective on life. The guy who blew up 8 bombs, and who sings about adult men wanting teenage girls for sex is someone to be admired. The Yale educated lawyer who stands up for free speech, and the engineer who spends his senior years working to make the internet a better place…well those guys are brain-addled and foolish.

It takes a great deal of work for most individuals to be that stupid. Ferguson, Kimberlin and Schmalfeldt make it look easy.

I judge your stupidity based on your apparent veneration of an unrepentant terrorist pedophile. That’s because I give you the benefit of the doubt, assuming that you aren’t a pedophile yourself, and that you’re too dumb to understand how evil it was to maim Carl DeLong with a bomb in a gym bag. Not to mention arrange Julia Scyphers’ murder.

Am I wrong? Do you recognize that evil, and just not care? Because of partisan politics?

Well, as I said, I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt. In this case, that means I’m assuming that he was making a stupid, tasteless joke in response to a stupid, tasteless joke, rather than indicating a sexual preference for teen girls. I don’t pay much attention to this guy, but this is the only example of such behavior I know of. If there’s more, that would likely change my mind. Until I see more, though, I’m going with stupidity, because I’ve seen plenty of evidence of that.

Luck had nothing to do with this – Hoge’s complaint was defective from the start and I capitalized on it.

He didn’t properly plead a civil conspiracy, he relied on a state case law that was factually correct save for the fact that it didn’t negate the minimum contacts clause of Maryland’s Long Arm statute.

No, feeb, that’s still luck on your part. I still know you’re stupid [and evil, apparently] because you think you’re in the clear. You’ve basically conceded that point that you did participate in a civil conspiracy, but you think Hoge can’t amend his argument regarding jurisdiction. If your dumb, dumb luck holds, perhaps Hoge won’t succeed in that.

Nice admission of evil on your part, though. Is there any crime a political ally can commit that you might be repulsed by?

Fifi has never been a terribly impressive intellect, but this is particularly rich in FAIL:

In THIS comment he says “I *am* in the clear,” but in his VERY NEXT comment he says “If Hoge wants to sue me, he can come to California and sue me.”

That doesn’t sound very “in the clear” to me. At least not in a “somebody has tried and failed to sue me so many times that he’s all out of jurisdictions to try” sort of way.

Besides – Fifi didn’t beat Hoge…he won on a technicality, and everyone knows if you don’t beat your opponent on the merits, you’re just a loser. Didn’t the cracksmoking Wisconsin legal team share that?

It’s like this, kiddies (gather ’round, yer Uncle Willy is going to tell you a story):

The judge told Hoge to his face that he missed a glaring chunk of a state case he relied on, the one that affirms the minimum contacts clause of Maryland’s Long Arm Statute.

Actually, I don’t think that was a mistake. I think Hoge purposefully left that out to try to wing it past the judge because – had he actually mentioned it – it would have invalidated his complaint that dragging me into a Maryland court was for good and proper consideration.

Or, it could very well be that the Old Bastard missed it completely.

In either case, it was a rookie move and he came up short at bat.

The other thing was the judge telling Hoge to his face that he didn’t actually plead a civil conspiracy. Oh, sure, he titled it as such but utterly failed to plead it that way.

So…under the doctrine of collateral estoppel Hoge’s chances of ever dragging me into a Maryland court boil down to two things: